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- Failure to manage teacher supply shortchanges young people massively
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- Guiding students through a pandemic
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- Treaty journey for all
- Never afraid to challenge orthodox thinking
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- Surplus staffing in the age of Covid
- Leadership through the eyes of Māori educators
- Workload and our collective agreements
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- What is Tautai ole Moana?
- NCEA Learning Recognition Credits 2021
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- Introducing Miriama Barton
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- Save the date: Paid Union Meetings February 2022
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- Learning to lead effectively
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- Opportunity to catch up at Te Kura Summer School
- The life of Helen Kelly
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- PPTA welcomes Out of Hours Music and Art staff into our fold
- Issues and Organising Conference 2022
- Insecure employment – when it is not lawful
- Introducing Rochelle Shadbolt
- Secondary teachers meet to decide collective agreement claims
- Teaching Council report more cause for concern
- Future of new histories curriculum hinges on proper resourcing
- Mandate decision no surprise
- Next steps crucial to success of education strategies
- Unprecedented times for teachers
- Meet your new Māori vice president
- Meetings fuel collective agreement campaign
- Tapping into the part-time potential
- Truth will out
- Promoting Pasifika Education
- Tū Toa – PPTA Pasifika Fono
- Issues and Organising 2022
- Pulling together to get through
- Teachers on the frontline
- Another storm brewing in New South Wales
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- Introducing Michael Cabral-Tarry
- Your new Teaching Council representative
- Call for climate change curriculum
- Miriama's outstanding service honoured
- Winners are grinners
- COVID-19 Schools moving to Orange
- Urgent solutions needed to make schools safer
- School attendance strategy welcome
- Collective Agreement negotiations begin
- Secondary teachers welcome NCEA timeline changes
- Q & A with Hon. Jan Tinetti
- Your Komiti Pasifika
- Tū Toa – PPTA Pasifika Fono
- COVID cloud continues
- Teaching Council consultation disappoints
- Haere ra Linwood, haere mai Te Aratai
- Letter to the editor
- Tony Nelson - outstanding branch activist
- He mihi poroporaki ki a te Moana Nui a Kiwa Jackson
- Making curriculum connections with mana whenua
- Taupo-nui-a-Tia teachers treated
- Introducing Jo Brunskill
- Wellbeing at heart of secondary principals’ collective agreement claim
- Call for Nominations: Election of President, Junior Vice President, Māori Vice President and Executive members for 2024 - 2025
- NCEA mitigations the boost students need
- Invest in teachers, invest in Aotearoa
- Education under COVID: Research Project
- Call for nominations for Komiti Pasifika
- PPTA wins call back case
- Time to take a breath
- Māori Teachers’ Conference 2022
- Invest in Teachers, Invest in Aotearoa
- Tū Toa as warriors
- Developing a discerning population
- The personal price of school cyber security measures
- Charting the course of feminist history
- Kicking off your career in COVID era
- Employment woes - renewing your practising certificate
- Secondary teachers welcome investment package but....
- An end to streaming on secondary teachers' conference agenda
- Secondary teachers call for end to academic streaming
- Call for new way to staff schools – on need not numbers
- PPTA rejects Ministry’s offer for community education collective agreement
- Concerned about school attendance? Support Fair Pay Agreements
- Secondary teachers pencil in paid union meetings
- Literacy and numeracy pilot results show need for sharper focus
- Negotiations in full swing
- Improvements needed to make the most of Learning Support Coordinators
- It’s time to fix the secondary teacher shortage
- Catering for ākonga by ākonga
- Te Petihana Reo Māori celebrations
- A teacher’s tips for managing stress
- Celebrating The Correspondence School’s centenary
- Taking time out to study
- Government ignores its own evaluations of Learning Support Coordinators
- School attendance report hugely concerning - more time and resources needed
- Government’s collective agreement offers rejected by PPTA national executive
- Secondary teachers meet to respond to Government offer
- Government offers rejected resoundingly by secondary principals and teachers
- Ministry’s teacher supply model over optimistic – PPTA
- A new year of discontent
- Your 2023 Presidential Team
- End of academic streaming in sight
- Pressing pause on RAS
- Introducing your representative in a range of professional fora
- Secondary school principals ratify new collective agreement offer
- Secondary teachers set date for first national strike
- School attendance initiatives welcome – but more is needed
- PPTA Te Wehengarua Strike Day activities Thursday 16 March 2023
- Secondary and area school teachers plan more industrial action
- Secondary teachers welcome new timeline for NCEA changes
- PPTA enters facilitated bargaining
- Secondary teachers take more industrial action as new term begins
- Lifting school attendance requires whole-of-community effort
- Secondary teacher shortage forces increasing number of classes to be cancelled
- Latest Ministry offer still below cost of living increase
- Secondary teachers reject collective agreement offers
- PPTA executive to consider facilitator's recommendations on dispute
- Secondary teachers will enter arbitration process but need government commitment
- PPTA Te Wehengarua agrees on arbitration process – industrial action called off
- New principals’ success is everyone’s responsibility
- Investing in the future
- Supporting wāhine Māori leaders
- Starting all over again
- Canterbury region reaches out to Hawke’s Bay
- Heart of the community
- Tokomaru pop up kura
- Keeping well digitally
- Secondary teachers to vote on collective agreement offer
- Secondary teachers ratify new collective agreement
- Area school teachers vote to accept new collective agreement
- Teaching profession best equipped to improve numeracy and literacy
- Initial Teacher Education report more about ideology than genuine solutions
- Greater support needed for aspiring secondary school wāhine Māori leaders
- Secondary principals survey an accurate reflection of top concerns
- PPTA seeks urgent meeting with NZQA about exam issues
- Public education should be the focus of government investment
- Standing up for public education
- Call for taskforce on flexible learning spaces
- Celebrating our differences
- Introducing the Senior Positions Advisory Committee
- Greater support needed for aspiring secondary school wāhine Māori leaders
- Secondary teachers question rationale for changes to relationship education guidelines
- PISA results continue to show more to be done for equity in education
- Secondary teachers urge Government to keep Fair Pay Agreements
- Repealing smoke-free legislation huge step backwards for schools and students
- Government needs to address secondary teacher shortage urgently
- High hopes for a smooth 2024 NCEA exam round
- Te Tiriti must continue to be honoured and advanced in our secondary schools
- Secondary teachers urge David Seymour to get reality check on school lunches
- Government refusal to release charter school information alarming
- More investment in schools and young people needs to be a Government priority
- New histories curriculum on track - more support needed
- Principals and teachers agree changes to NCEA timeline necessary
- Education job cuts short-sighted with serious implications
- Meet some of your new national executive members
- A new kaumātua for PPTA Te Wehengarua
- Sorting the secondary teacher shortage should be Government’s top priority
- Secondary teacher shortage shortchanges young people - and Aotearoa
- Secondary principals welcome more learning support and leadership development priorities
- Secondary teacher shortage shortchanges young people – and Aotearoa
- Benefits of belonging
- NCEA 2023 results a symptom of troubling times
- Secondary teachers applaud continued funding of school lunch programme
- Urgent action needed to ensure schools’ online exams proceed without hitches
- Disbanding of pay equity taskforce seriously backward step
- Charter schools and Te Tiriti focus of secondary teachers’ meetings
- Secondary teachers welcome continuation and expansion of school lunch programme
- Hundreds of millions needed for local state schools – not charter schools
- Charter schools’ lack of transparency and accountability seriously concerning
- Government’s education budget heavy on promises but light on delivery
- Excluding teachers from curriculum processes is risky
- AI - not what you know but how fast you can learn
- Charter schools create unlevel playing field - a US teacher's experience
- It's all about relationships
- Ombudsman investigates charter schools OIA request complaint
- Kiwi secondary school students up with the top in international assessment of creativity
- Charter schools legislation contains unpleasant surprises
- Rushed consultation on charter schools shows Government's complete disconnect from communities
- Government desperately trying to patch up charter school model even before it’s started
- Charter schools will leave students vulnerable and undermine teaching profession
- Options to extend the school strike notification period in the Education and Training Act 2020
- Joint statement on proposed changes to oversight of Initial Teacher Education
- Teacher Supply Summit and The Education Sector Groups
- Education leaders unite against Government's moves to downgrade place of Te Tiriti in education
- Cuts to te reo Māori programme disappointing and short-sighted
- Associate Minister’s school attendance statement perplexing
- NCEA survey shows serious concerns about rollout of Level 1 changes
- PPTA Te Wehengarua will cover members in charter schools
- International condemnation of New Zealand charter schools law
- School property changes welcomed - with some concerns
- PPTA’s Long Term Vision for the secondary teaching profession
- Teachers stand up for public education on nationwide day of action
- Taxpayers' Union request to schools
- Treaty Principles Bill - statement of opposition
- Lasting and integrated solutions needed to improve school attendance – PPTA
- Report reflects teachers’ concerns about shambolic implementation of NCEA L1
- New Zealand schooling system should provide for all, not the chosen few - PPTA
- Review of relationships and sexuality education welcomed
- Government refusal to release charter school information unreasonable and unlawful - Ombudsman
- Teaching Council elections 2025
- No frills Teaching Council needed
- PPTA Te Wehengarua Farewells Melanie Webber
- Outstanding branch activist
- Draft English curriculum lacks connection with reality
- Time for branch resolutions against charter schools
- Mentoring crucial for success of overseas and new secondary teachers
- PPTA welcomes Government decision to pay teachers’ practising fees
- PPTA calls on Minister Stanford to come clean on Kāhui Ako
- Government turns back clock on pay equity for teachers
- Secondary teachers initiate bargaining amidst teacher shortage and pay equity tensions
- Support the petition to protect pay equity!
- New pay equity law locks teachers out of process
- Qualifications system must enable all learners to thrive
- A devastating day in the life of a pay equity advocate
- Pay equity day of action
- Budget initiatives come at expense of working women
- Enabling our students to be their best selves
- Nominations for Melanie Webber Award 2025
- PPTA members polled on additional pay claim to recognise pay equity loss
- Valuing the mahi
- Sustainability in action
- PPTA members support additional salary claim
- PPTA hopes for simple and speedy collective agreement talks
- Changes to NCEA must build on what works, not destroy it
- Government offer fails to address core issues of teacher recruitment and retention and unmet student need
- Presidential and national executive elections 2026-27
- NCEA replacement proposals - some analysis & considerations
- Secondary teachers to hold one day strike next Wednesday
- Genuine consultation crucial to success of proposed qualifications changes - Kate Gainsford
- Secondary teachers consider revised offer for collective agreement
- More details and transparency needed around secondary school subject list
- Secondary teachers urge Government to find more effective solutions
- PPTA Te Wehengarua members vote to strike
- More secondary teachers needed to deliver new curriculum
- Secondary teachers’ initial impressions of new curricula raise questions
- Unprecedented political interference in the role of the Teaching Council
- Education Minister’s bombshell takes us back to the future
- Facilitation to occur for secondary collective agreement negotiations
- Opposition to gutting the independence and core functions of the Teaching Council
- National education coalition unites against changes to Education and Training Act
- Expressions of Interest for Tirotiro Anō - Report on the proposal to change the national qualification
- Please explain, Minister
- Congratulations Lisa!
- Back to the future
- How to mentor meaningfully
- Update on collective bargaining negotiations for secondary teachers
- Secondary principals urge Education Minister to reverse Te Tiriti decision
- Is it time for Aotearoa New Zealand to opt out of PISA?
- Secondary teachers accept collective agreement offer
- New collective agreement for secondary school principals
- Students must be at centre of education change
- Education Minister fails to deliver secondary English and Maths resources for start of school year
- PPTA area school members go back to negotiations for new collective agreement
- Government's employment law changes condemned
- Minister must be laser-focused on solving worsening secondary teacher shortages
- Expert panel to review secondary school qualifications changes
- The missed opportunity of pay equity: Fixing the teacher supply crisis
- Secondary teachers welcome select committee recommendations into young people's safety online
- Government urged to fund more counsellors for schools
- Who Pushes the Boulder? Middle Leadership and Education Reform
- Lack of detail in qualifications 'announcement' deeply worrying
- Support vital for schools to remain open in fuel crisis - PPTA
- Schools need fuel crisis plan
- Fuel crisis assistance for schools tinkers around edges
- Building the secondary curriculum on broken drafts is a serious risk
- Dangerous changes to education opposed overwhelmingly
- Rangatahi need a system that reflects Aotearoa
- Removal of elected members from Teaching Council shows disdain for profession
- Schools’ operational funding nearly 12% below inflation
- SMART tool not ready, creates more concerns than solutions – Deputy Principals’ feedback
- Secondary school qualification details announced – will the kids be alright?
- Education budget leaves schools falling further behind
- Tribunal report confirms curriculum reforms breached Treaty principles
- Control of Teaching Council one more step in highly disturbing trend
- Secondary teachers balloted on Teaching Council boycott
- Secondary principals urge Education Minister to reflect on report findings
- Reflections from the Unmet Needs Summit
- Teacher shortage easing but how it's easing is concerning
- Secondary teachers vote to refuse appointment to Teaching Council
- PPTA urges parties to tackle ‘cost of learning’ crisis following inflation spike
- Public Service Commission’s risky behaviour concerning
- School integration the big question for industry-led subjects
- Education Minister legally obliged to respond to concerns about new Science curriculum
- Call for nominations - PPTA Te Wehengarua Climate Justice Committee
- More curriculum finalised - but where's the support?
- New secondary qualifications system projected to fail more young people
- Expert inquiry panel calls for changes to new secondary school qualification system
- Sunlight not secrecy needed for curriculum reform
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